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House Dem Kept His Bitcoin-Linked Stock Position Secret While Helping to Pass Key Crypto Bills

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

💡Share this on X and Bluesky!Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), who sits on a congressional subcommittee overseeing the crypto market, voted for crypto-friendly bills this summer while secretly holding tens of thousands of dollars in stock tied to Bitcoin’s price, in violation of federal disclosure laws.On Monday this week, Thanedar finally disclosed that he had bought between $15,000 and $50,000 worth of MicroStrategy shares in July 2024, more than…Read Article

Blinken, Who Told Congress That Israel Was Not Blocking Aid in Gaza, Joins CAP’s Board

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

💥Share this on Bluesky and XThe Democratic Party-aligned think tank Center for American Progress recently added former Secretary of State Antony Blinken to their board of directors—quietly, with no public announcement. In 2024, ProPublica reported, based on leaked documents, that two U.S. government bodies—USAID and the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration—concluded that Israel was intentionally blocking food and med…Antony Blinken · Gaza Read Article

DSCC Took Lobbyist Bundles From Firms Reaping Rewards Under Trump

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

🖋️Share this on Bluesky and XWhen the Trump White House came into power with a barrage of executive actions, Democratic activists told their party’s Senate leaders that they wanted them to push back forcefully against the administration’s cuts to federal agencies. At an early February rally protesting DOGE’s cuts to government functions, where Minority Leader Chuck Schumer led Democratic lawmakers in chanting, “We will win,” activists in the cr…Senate · United States Read Article

Cleo Fields Voted to Deregulate Crypto While Investing in Related Tech Companies

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

Share this on X and Bluesky!Freshman House Democrat Cleo Fields, a member of the House Financial Services Committee, has been voting on legislation that shapes the tech industry while simultaneously investing millions in companies directly affected by those laws. Between June and July, Fields purchased stocks worth as much as $15 million in tech giants Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Meta, with his individual investments this summer reachi…Cryptocurrency · Washington Read Article

Billionaires, Crypto Investors, and Fossil Fuel Companies Fill up Trump Super PAC

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

💰Share this on Bluesky and XAlready this year, the Trump administration has laid out a feast of benefits for big business: establishing new corporate tax cuts and sweeping deregulation in the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” dropping or halting at least 165 corporate enforcement cases, and appointing industry cheerleaders in top agencies.While the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress were enshrining these measures over the first…Taxes · United States Read Article

The Democratic Firm Cashing In on Fear

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

Share this post on X and Bluesky!“Extreme MAGA Republicans have raised an unprecedented amount to defeat us. Will you rush $5 to help stop them?” Emails and text messages like this are flooding inboxes and phones ahead of the midterms, using fear and emotional appeals to raise small-dollar donations. What they don’t say, though, is that a Democratic consulting firm is cashing in on the panic, pocketing millions while sending just a tiny fraction…United States · United States Read Article

Senators Claim to Care About Starvation in Gaza, Then Vote for More Bombs

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

💥Share this on Bluesky and XLast week, 27 Senate Democrats voted in favor of a resolution introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that sought to block the sale of specific weapons to Israel for its war in Gaza, where more than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed. Among Democratic senators, the count was a new high water mark for Sanders’ resolutions disapproving of certain offensive weapon sales to Israel, and represents more than half of th…Senate · Gaza Read Article

Foxx, Gottheimer Aim to Restrict Federal Funding to Colleges that Boycott Israel

75% Right coverage: 4 sources

Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would make colleges that engage in a “nonexpressive commercial boycott” of Israel ineligible to receive federal student aid funding. The legislation, the Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act, would require schools to certify annually that they are not engaged in such boycotts, and would instruct the Department of Education to annually publish a list…AIPAC · United States See the Story

DOJ Approves T-Mobile’s Latest Merger Despite Admitting It’s Terrible For Consumers And Competition

100% Left coverage: 2 sources

One of the bigger Trump election season lies was that Trump 2.0 would be "serious about antitrust," and protect blue collar Americans from corporate predation. You'd have to be a turnip to not see that was an aggressive lie, pushed by a lot of folks (even supposed antitrust buster Matt Stoller), who seemed hellbent on…Department of Justice · United States See the Story

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